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   Note: This section last updated 14th March 2021

   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   ۱٫۲۳۴٬۴۵

(where ٬ indicates the decimal separator and ٫ the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 8th May 2021

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The national language is Standard Arabic . About 93% of the population speak North Levantine Spoken Arabic . There are also some 235 000 speakers of Armenian .

Forms of address are often not used at all in Lebanon. Where they are, they are likely to be in French, Arabic or (less often) Turkish.

Women usually take their husband’s family name upon marriage.

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

   Note: This section last updated 22nd February 2014

Lebanese company types include:

   Branch 
   Commercial Representation 
   Holding Company 
   Insurance Company 
   Offshore Company 
   Real Estate Company 
   Representative Office    
   Société Anonyme Libanaise (SAL) – Joint Stock Company 
   Société à Responsabilité Limitée (SARL) – Limited Liability Partnership Company 

Addresses will be written in Arabic, French or English, and may contain street addresses or post office box numbers. The format is:

   Contact name
   {Other optional information such as company name}
   Building name/number[ ]Street name/number{[ ]Floor information}
   {Sector or municipality name[ ]}Caza name[ ]Postal code

For example:

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

This is found written P.O. Box or Boîte Postale in transliterated addresses.

Lebanon began introducing postal codes in 2000, and the new system will be rolled out over the whole country in the next years. The new postal code contains four consecutive digits in rural areas (and for post offices and government offices) and eight digits in urban areas in the format:

   9999[ ]9999

The first four numbers indicate the “postal zone”, a sector within a town, or a village. The final four digits indicate the “postal code extension”, which pinpoint a single building within a postal zone. For areas with an eight-digit postal code, those odd-numbered codes indicate private residences, even-numbered codes indicate businesses. Large users (LVR’s - Large Volume Receivers) and post office boxes also have eight-digit postal codes.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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Lebanon - Postal code format

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Lebanon - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 3rd October 2015

Refer to Exonyms in Lebanon for full lists of place names in Lebanon in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

Lebanon has 8 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah). They are:

   Aakkâr 
   Al Biqa’ 
   Baalbek-Hermel 
   Bayrut 
   Liban-Nord 
   Liban-Sud 
   Mont-Liban 
   Nabatiyah 

Administrative districts graphic

   Note: This section last updated 22nd June 2015

Lebanese area codes have 1 or 2 digits when dialled from abroad. Full numbers have a length of 7 or 8 digits. Mobile numbers have the area codes 3, 70, 71, 761, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 788, 789, 791, 793 or 81.